Dec 21, 2008

Help...........

What will happen in the next 4-6 years of our lives has to be decided within the next few weeks. Please help us with your opinion on which option sounds best-

1- Take the Navy ophthalmology residency spot in San Diego starting this summer for 3 years and then after that go off somewhere else for 3 more years with the Navy, as a Navy ophthalmologist.

.....or

2- Spend one more year here in TX and be done with the Navy, and then spend 3 years in civilian ophthalmology residency somewhere on the East Coast...and then hopefully be able to move back home to San Diego for good? Tough call, eh? Watcha guys think?

14 comments:

I guess you have to decide how badly you are missing living in SD. Do you really want to be back there even if its not permanent? OR Do you want to be done with the Navy sooner than later and miss SD for a while longer. That is a tough one. It would be nice for you to have the family support that you would get in SD for all the stuff you are doing right now. We'll be praying for you either way!

I'm gonna bank on Ryan saying go civilian, but I'll ask him. My opinion, too, is go civilian and be done with the navy. I don't know how it is with the navy, but I'm going to guess that the salary you'll make coming out of regular ophtho is going to make up for any of the cushiness you may have the next few years with the navy. Maybe it depends on what residency in the east coast you got into though. That might make a difference in how wide open your options are when you're done. I don't know - one of the attending docs just told Ryan to go for retina over general ophtho because the difference in salary will be definitely worth the extra two years of training and the lack of money we'd have during that time. You should just have Gavin call Ryan and discuss his options. I bet he's got some good insight.

ummm...hmmm...that's a hard one! I think we TOTALLY GET each other right now. If it was me I'd probably go civilian route. But it's not me. You know, it's probably going to end up being one of those things where either choice is fine, you just have to pick one! those are the worst kind :) But I know whatever you do you'll choose to be happy about it and make the best of it, so it can't be that bad!

Alright, Ryan says go with the best program. He says the navy might be pretty good training. There's an air force or military guy doing a fellowship at Bascom and Ryan says he's really good. So he says if you get in somewhere like NY Med, he thinks the navy might be better. I was with my air force friend last night and she said that the only thing is almost everyone is getting deployed now and they're serving for longer terms than they used to. She says it's just not the same world anymore that it was when they started. So I guess you can consider that too. Seriously, do you even care about my opinions that much? Just trying to have a logical opinion because I can't be selfish because wherever you go it's not going to be by me!